4 is the Magic Number

ORIGINAL BLOGGED BY THEBOOKRUNNER.COM - Stephen Turner

A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks and I've realised 4 must be the new magic number. 

Last Friday we enjoyed our 4th Wedding Anniversary - a truly amazing 4 years of married fun, laughter, adventure and business together. As we're both vegan, the traditional wedding anniversary gift list doesn't work I used good old Google and found there is a Vegan Wedding Anniversary Gift list - and for the 4th year of marriage, juicing! So we now have a mini orange and lemon tree for the house that we can 'harvest' next September ready for juicing. 

Yesterday, we moved into our lovely new house that will be our family house. This was move number 4 since we sold our home 4 years ago to invest in property. We are so excited to be living in our new 4 bed home and can't wait for our little girl to join us. 

In the last 4 years of entrepreneurship, we have created 4 main income streams:

1. Property investment - let for guaranteed rent. 
2. Property management - our serviced accommodation business across Essex and Suffolk. Now also growing into Kent and London and how are we keeping up this growth? With 4 main investors/partners. 
3. Business & wealth education - from stage
4. Online sales - physical products on Amazon US

Between now and the end of 2018 we're adding 4 more:

1. Property development - conversions into serviced apartments
2. Property refurbishment - increasing values and letting as HMOs through an agent (to diversify our property income)
3. Online sales - our new online course & coaching, launching soon
4. Online sales - bringing our Amazon business to the UK

How am I managing all of these? A Property Manager and VAs. How many VAs? You guessed it... 4! If you don't know what VAs are or what they can do for you, check out my previous blog or The VIVA Club. 

And to top it all off, what is my aim for all of my businesses? To be run passively and only require 4 hours of my time a week. The 4 Hour Work Week.

I am already down to 4 hours a week for the property business and now working smart to get the other 2 down to fit within that 4 hours. 

So that's why 4 is the new magic number. What's your magic number?

Have a great week,

​Steve